PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to thte Penn State Collegian, established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 •it the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, 1879. Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr, Gordon Coy '43 <Ds^^F EC ‘ Leonard E. Bach '43 Editorial and Business Office Carnegie Hall Phone 711 JMromgihg Editor This Issue News Editor This Issue Women’s Editor This Issue Graduate Counselor The accelerated, three-semes ter program is Penn State’s ma jor contribution to America’s war efforts. For the duration, it is to be regarded as a normal and not a special program of study. Friday, May 1, 1942 Stamp Plan May Fail Early indications show that the combined cor ;;age-defense stamp plan, which was authorized for Junior Prom, is going to meet with distinct failure. Hundreds of students and guests are planning to attend the Prom, and hundreds of corsages will add to the color of the affcJr, but tlie little red, white and blue ribbons which sig nify the purchase of defense stamps, are going to he “conspicuous by their absence.” This is no indication that students lack pa triotism: but there is reason to believe that some tiling is wrong. In deep contrast, it must be re rmiembered that 'the no-corsage plan was a tre mendous success at Senior Ball. At that time, nearly $l,OOO worth of stamps was sold at Stu dent Union. However, the plan has lyaen slightly altered :f'.ir Junior Prom. Through an attempt to ap pease two opposing factions, the committee de cided to inaugurate the joint plan of purchasing both stamps and corsages. This time the florists, and not Student Union, were authorized to sell the stamps. The florists are cooperating, but •the students are not. Only a few stamps have been sold, and it may be estimated that the total :-ale will fall far below the record set at Senior Ball. After seeing bow much the defense stamp sale tyas dropped for the Prom, and, at the same time, ■realizing the great need for an “all out” defense effort, student leaders on campus will probably cut the sale of corsages for all future dances. This can not be termed a drastic measure be cause many large colleges and universities have ULready limited the number of “big dances” on their social program. Big dances are necessary for morale and should he continued, but corsages are a luxury at pres ent and should be banned, just as the retail sale of radios, automobiles, and other pre-war necessi ties has been discontinued. Hats Off To Seniors By diverting their gift fund into defense chan nels, the Class of 1942 will go on record as mak ing a choice which can not be contested. Al though $5,500 in defense bonds may seem like a .'■small sum when compared with the 100 million dollars the government is spending each day to carry on the war, it will at least add a little to the staggering sum that is needed to whip the Axis. After the war is over and America has again nettled down to the art of living, the bonds will mature and the money can be used to set up scholarships to educate the sons and daughters of the Class of ’42. But this is only the beginning. The germ of smother great defense plan was introduced at All-College Cabinet meeting last Tuesday. Ac cording to the proposed plan, a centralized fund 1 will be set. up from contributions received from 'the many different student organizations on campus. As the fund grows, defense bonds will be purchased and set aside until after the war is over. At that time, the bonds will be cashed and the money used to provide scholarship funds for the men who could not complete their college edu cation because they enlisted or were drafted be fore graduation. If the plan is adopted, the Collegian will offer 3ts support tlv publishing daily reports which will list the latest contributors, and the total amount in the central fund. This plan is not Viived on a new idea, since many towns and cities h.'ive already started similar campaigns such as the “Buy a Bomber Fund.” However, it will be a big step in the right direction if Penn State initiate# its own campaign. Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Phone 4372 ... Donald L. Webb Jane H. Murphy Janet Wintei Louis H. Bel) THE DAILY COLLEGIAN It’s bad /enough that weVe in the Infirmary recuperating from a bad case of exploded head without being mistaken for little worms by- peo ple who can’t tell the difference between a camel (look above) and a worm. We do not have a worm’s eye view; we have a needle. First 'this Ferdy worm fellow tells the world last week that we should get out and gambol on the green in preparation for the coming semes ter. Relax on the grassy turf beside a babbling brook, etc. The College releases the new third semester timetable. Yeah. Let us add: “Ha!” And. re iterate: “Ha!” By which we mean that if you are one of those people accustomed to registering late in the afternoofi of the second day, having quickly slipped fifteen credits of assorted courses on the agenda, Brother, you are in for a session with a dilemma. Now then, Ferdy Worm,- we hold, submit and assert to you that when some schools in this Col lege have combined their Summer School sessions with their regular semester classes, that we have plenty of trouble coming up. Some people in scientific schools, if they-want to take the courses they are after, have to take them on a Summer School basis for almost the whole day for a few weeks. Worm, they ain’t got no time to babble at a brook. Ferdy Woim (sorry, a fellow from New York just came by), it strikes us that there are going to be a lot of people working in restaurants and other nooks and crannies to earn money to be here for “Penn State’s major contribution to Am erica’s war effort.” By this new timetable it strikes us that they’re not going to have any time to babble at a brook. , ... Ferdy Worm, we think we see needle’s eye to worm’s eye with you op getting out in the open during the Summer. But we think we’ve got a pretty sharp ne'edle point that’ just having Sum mer weather doesn’t automatically give people time to get out and bask in the sun. We think there’s enough money around this College to give loans to those people who have to work too many hours during the Summer. Re creation Coordinated may do a fine job, but you have to have some time before you can buy any stock. Members of Delta Gamma sorority at the Uni versity of Akron, hearing that men students were buying fewer defense stamps than were the co eds, offered a kiss with bach stamp sold on “bar gain” day. The usual day’s sales had been $B. “Bargain" day hit $3O. Well. DG’s, what are you waiting for? We’re willin’. After • r THE PROM its Y The ■ \ • Comer unusual \ Through The Needle's Eye —GABRIEL Peck Named New Cheerleader Head Charles E. Peck ’44 was named new cheerleader head at a meet ing held last night. In addition to this selection, new cheerleaders were named. The new group is composed of four sophomores and, eight fresh men. The following are the new leaders: sophomores—Paul Frey, Frank R. McKain, Roy W. Snyder, and, first alternate, William R. (Pomerantz. Freshmen—M.ichael A. Blatz, Harold H. Benjamin, Fred Zurm, Hugo R. Larson, Rob ert E. Petersen, and Robert S. Farnsworth. John D. Harlan and Leonard Freedman will serve' as first and second alternates re spectively. Peck will succeed John W, Dague ’42 as cheerleader head, ’New Course Offered Literature of the British Dom inions and Colonies will be offer ed during the Summer semester by the department of English Lit erature for the first time. English Literature 70, the new course, will be offered on Mon dry s and Fridays at 9 a. m. and Wednesdays at 2 p. m. by Profes sor Sutherland, who has made ex tensive studies hi these litera tures. 1 Friend or Enemy? They 're taking no chances Day and niglit thousands of civilian volunteers at Army author ized observation posts report Aircraft Flash Messages to Army ‘•filter" centers—by telephone. From this information, each course is charted on filter maps... relayed, to operations hoards such as the one shown above —by telephone. Should, checking prove the aircraft to be an enemy, the telephone would play an important part in the defense strategy...in warning endangered communities...in mobilizing civilian defense units. Bell System men cooperated with Army authorities in design ing and providing the telephone facilities used, by the air defense system. Ibis is but another example of a war-lime job well done. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1942 CAMPUS CALENDAR Thespian itickets are now avail able at Student Union, price 50 cents. Dr. W. C. Lowdermilk, assist ant chief of Soil Conservation •Service, U. S. Department of, Ag riculture, will speak in 119 New Physics building at 8 p. m. to night on “Conquest of the Land; Through 7,000 Years.” • Baseball with West Virginia, New Beaver Field, 4 p. m. . ~TOMORROW Dr. Vernon G. Schaefer, asso ciate professor of psychology 'in extension, will lpad a discussion on safety training at the meeting of the Satiety Conference in Chi cago, 111. The Lutheran students will hold, a cabin party at Watts Lodge. Meet at the church at 1:30 p. m. Baseball with West Virginia, New Beaver Field, 3 p. m. MISCELLANEOUS Junior Prom tickets are on sale at the Athletic window. The price is $4. . Names of all officers' of frater nities, honoraries, clubs, and other organized-college groups must be turned in to Student Union this week in order to be included in the Student Union Directory. TODAY
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